Steven Tribe
19-Feb-2018, 02:57
Perhaps an amusing item from last weeks UK auctions?
This was a very mixed lot, with an apparently complete early camera and a couple of plate holders.
Plus a lot of old lenses that that a buff had collected during a long lifetime. Some newer cameras and some stereoscopic gear, including a T-P stereoscopic shutter and what looked like a landscape meniscus stereo set of lenses. Finally, a diverse selection of backs/plate holders of some age but of unknown sizes.
There was originally an average description of the lenses. The auctioneer couldn't fathom the Scoville lens with the SMC trademark which became a "CM" lens!
The final photo had a surprise. Right in the middle was a very dirty Hypergon with no engraving visible.
This hadn't been described in the text and was not on view in any other of the photos. It made the lot somewhat more interesting. I asked the right question about the lenses but didn't ask about the Hypergon, of course. The answers eventually appeared as a modified description. Just before the auction, someone must have asked about it and some of the other interesting lenses. The further adjustment to the description came a few hours before the auction - pointing out missing lenses on some of the more interesting items and that "the fish eye lens with the yellow label has a crack"!
So bidding amongst the 25 watchers was slightly more restrained than expected. But the whole process was very entertaining!
This was a very mixed lot, with an apparently complete early camera and a couple of plate holders.
Plus a lot of old lenses that that a buff had collected during a long lifetime. Some newer cameras and some stereoscopic gear, including a T-P stereoscopic shutter and what looked like a landscape meniscus stereo set of lenses. Finally, a diverse selection of backs/plate holders of some age but of unknown sizes.
There was originally an average description of the lenses. The auctioneer couldn't fathom the Scoville lens with the SMC trademark which became a "CM" lens!
The final photo had a surprise. Right in the middle was a very dirty Hypergon with no engraving visible.
This hadn't been described in the text and was not on view in any other of the photos. It made the lot somewhat more interesting. I asked the right question about the lenses but didn't ask about the Hypergon, of course. The answers eventually appeared as a modified description. Just before the auction, someone must have asked about it and some of the other interesting lenses. The further adjustment to the description came a few hours before the auction - pointing out missing lenses on some of the more interesting items and that "the fish eye lens with the yellow label has a crack"!
So bidding amongst the 25 watchers was slightly more restrained than expected. But the whole process was very entertaining!